HMS Thrasher (N37)
Service
- 14 May 1941 — 9 March 19471,572 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Thrasher
- Pennant / hull number
- N37
- Builder
- Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead
- Laid down
- 14 November 1939
- Launched
- 28 November 1940
- Commissioned
- 14 May 1941
- Fate
- Scrapped 9 March 1947 (1947)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,090 long tons (1,107 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,575 long tons (1,600 t)
- Length
- 83.82 m (275 ft)
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 4.97 m (16.3 ft)
- Speed
- 15.3 knots (28.2 km/h, 17.5 mph)
- Range
- 4,500 nmi (8,334 km)
- Complement
- 61
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Thrasher was a British T class submarine in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number N37. Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead laid her keel on 14 November 1939. She entered service on 14 May 1941, having been launched on 28 November 1940.
She was one of 52 ships of her class. The class followed the Grampus-class submarine and was succeeded by the U class.
The boat displaced 1,090 long tons surfaced and 1,575 long tons submerged. She measured 83.8 m (275 ft) long with a beam of 7.9 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 15.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 61. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,572 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 9 March 1947.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Two shafts
- Twin diesel engines 2,500 hp (1.86 MW) each
- Twin electric motors 1,450 hp (1.08 MW) each
- Armament
- 6 internal forward-facing 21 in torpedo tubes
- 2 external forward-facing torpedo tubes
- 3 external backward-facing torpedo tubes
- 6 reload torpedoes
- 1 x 4 inch deck gun
- 3 anti-aircraft machine guns
Sister ships
- HMS Tabard
- HMS Taciturn
- HMS Tactician (P314)
- HMS Taku (N38)
- HMS Talent (P322)
- HMS Talent (P337)
- HMS Talisman (N78)
- HMS Tally-Ho
- HMS Tantalus
- HMS Tantivy
- HMS Tarn (P336)
- HMS Tarpon (N17)
- HMS Taurus (P339)
- HMS Telemachus (P321)
- HMS Tempest (N86)
- HMS Templar
- HMS Teredo
- HMS Terrapin
- HMS Tetrarch (N77)
- HMS Thermopylae
- HMS Thetis (N25)
- HMS Thistle (N24)
- HMS Thorn (N11)
- HMS Thorough
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Thrasher (N37) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer. Post-Work: User:Gunfighter-6 — This photograph FL 9745 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons